Book type: fiction (5258)
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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie EN
IndiaDescription:
"Once upon a time, in a world just like ours, there came "the time of the strangenesses." Reason receded and the loudest, most illiberal voices reigned. A simple gardener began to levitate, and a powerful djinn -- also known as the Princess of Fairyland -- raised an army composed entirely of her semi-magical great-great-great-grandchildren. A baby was born with the ability to see corruption in the faces of others. The ghosts of two philosophers, long dead, began arguing once more. And a battle for the kingdom of Fairyland was waged throughout our world for 1,001 nights -- or, to be more precis... continue
4922.
Tyrant Memory by Horacio Castellanos Moya EN
Country: North America / 
Honduras
Honduras
Description:
Castellanos Moya’s most thrilling book to date, about the senselessness of tyranny. The tyrant of Horacio Castellanos Moya’s ambitious new novel is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Herna´ndez Marti´nez — known as the Warlock — who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An attempted coup in April, 1944, failed, but a general strike in May finally forced him out of office. Tyrant Memory takes place during the month between the coup and the strike. Its protagonist, Hayde´e Aragon, is a well-off woman, whose husband is a political prisoner and whose son, Clemente, after prematurely announcing... continue
Italy
France4925.
Romania4926.
United States of America4927.
Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război by Camil Petrescu RO
Description:
La apariţie, în 1930, romanul lui Camil Petrescu, Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război, a surprins critica prin caracterul lui aparent neunitar. O poveste clasică de dragoste şi un jurnal de război, greu de legat între ele. Persoana întâi a naraţiunii nu părea suficientă pentru a fi citite împreună. Şi mai era ceva, impresia, nu chiar uşor de formulat, că nici gelozia, nici războiul nu aveau înfăţişarea cunoscută din alte romane ale vremii. Ceea ce critica n-avea cum să ştie încă era că, sub ochii ei, se petrecea o reformă a r... continue
4928.
Ultimas tardes con Teresa by Juan Marsé ES
SpainDescription:
El audaz y ambicioso Manolo, chulo y caza-fortunas, desheredado murciano del Monte Carmelo en Barcelona, luego del equívoco con Maruja, logra llegar a la rica universitaria Teresa Serrat, y para su sorpresa, conoce el verdadero amor.
El libro está desarrollado con crudo realismo, un erotismo siempre latente y una tierna construcción de los personajes. Bueno.
4929.
Ulysses by James Joyce EN
IrelandDescription:
The Gabler edition of Ulysses, the greatest 20th-century novel written in English, contains corrections to more than 5,000 errors in earlier editions. Almost as soon as Ulysses first appeared, in Paris in 1922, James Joyce began to compile a list of errata, and publishers have continued the process ever since, often inadvertently adding to the list. In 1974, an international team of scholars headed by Professor Hans Walter Gabler began to study manuscript evidence, typescripts, and proofs in order to produce as accurate and complete a new edition as possible. First published in 1984, the Gable... continue
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Umami by Laia Jufresa EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
It started with a drowning. Deep in the heart of Mexico City, where five houses cluster around a sun-drenched courtyard, lives Ana, a precocious twelve-year-old still coming to terms with the mysterious death of her little sister years earlier. Over the rainy, smoggy summer she decides to plant a vegetable garden in the courtyard, and as she digs the ground and plants her seeds, her neighbors in turn delve into their past. As the ripple effects of grief, childlessness, illness and displacement saturate their stories, secrets seep out and questions emerge - Who was my wife? Why did my mom leave... continue